Gutta is a book.
Gutters are the main focus of this book.
Gutta is a latin word for a "a drop" from which the name "gutter" originated.
The form and special binding of the book has been designed to resemble a gutter. This is to help pay full attention on gutters.
The cover is simple, on one side there is an image of the beginning of a gutter, which is also where the book starts.
On the other side, where the book ends, there is an image if an end of a gutter. Both of the gutters are white and on a brick wall, which almost makes it seem as if it was one and the same.
All information about the book is written on the spine, so the text doesn't clash with either of the images on both sides of the cover.
When you open the book on the first page, you will find images of many different gutters that can be found in New Haven, CT.
Each gutter is so fundamentally different than another. Each has its own story, wall, building, but because of the images being zoomed in, we get just little context, and it's up to us to devise the rest.
It's not until we reach the end of the book where we can finally find some text.
The text that we find is the name of the book, what we would expect on the first page of a normal book. That is because this is where the second part of the book starts.
The special fold of the book allows us to open the second part of the book and read on the "other side" of the page than where the image was
The text is about the history of gutters, from the origins over the industrial revolution all the way to gutters in today's world and their overlooked significance and beauty.
The person that reads this book will be prompted to think about gutters in an unusual way, and hopefully come to understand the importance of details on the whole, in this analogy with gutters.
Once a person finishes reading both sides of the book, the main highlight of the book comes. The special fold allows us to unfold the whole book and all the images of the gutter form one long consecutive gutter in a real-life size.
This tall collage can be hung up on a wall as a home decoration,